Must Have Firefox Add-Ons for Web Development

Although I’ve tried very very hard to use Internet Explorer for web development, I just kept coming back to Firefox. I know I should use IE, especially IE6 since that’s where all the bugs happen to be found in, but it’s just not the same.
Over the years I’ve tried quite a few, and uninstalled quite [...]

Throw that shoe at Bush (Flash Game)

Since the incident last week in Iraq, where a Journalist throw his shoe at US’s President Bush, the video has been viewed millions of times on YouTube.
Now there is a flash game about it, only after a few days, and it’s got massive traffic, with the top country playing it the US.
Check it out at [...]

My blog has moved

I won’t be making any updates to this blog anymore. I finally setup my own domain for my blog and I will be updating my blog there.
The url is http://www.techy-talk.com
Now I can play around with plug-ins, change themes and all sorts of things. Yay!!.

Comparing Gmail Tasks and Remember the Milk Gmail Widget

Today I read Gmail added a Tasks module from TechCrunch, finally. It’s not part of standard Gmail yet, you have to turn it on in the Labs section of your Gmail account. Go to Settings -> Labs and find Tasks.
Before this was released I used the Remember the Milk Widget in Gmail for my tasks [...]

Social Media and ROI

Social media seems to be getting a lot of attention lately, and today I came across an article from Social Media Today on the measurement of ROI.
The article is http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/57710
The article mentions how you would actually measure ROI based on various social networks like Linke-In, Twitter and others.

Browsers now knows where you are, through Mozilla Geode

Just read up on the news today and Mozilla released a Geode plugin in Firefox 3. Basically it’s a plugin that allows you to give your specific location to the browser, which is then passed on to the website and the website will give content specific to your location.
Here is the url http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/10/introducing-geode/
This would be [...]

How to open .EML file in Vista

.EML file is a email message file used by Outlook express. It doesn’t open in Microsoft Office Outlook. In Vista, Outlook Express is no longer part of the installation, instead it is replaced with Windows Mail.
To Open .EML file, go to the folder where the file is in, right click on the file, and then [...]

The Four Hundred Hour Workweek

An interesting and sarcastic article by Robert Bruce on the four hundred hour week. It does make us take a look at what is happening in the technology sphere, where outsourcing to other countries for development is becoming more and more common, despite the massive cultures difference and language barrier.
http://www.knifegunpen.com/the-four-hundred-hour-workweek/

The Google Song

We’ve all said this before when someone ask you a question, “Just google it”. Now this is a song about Google to go with that.

Good article on .Net page cycle and view state

This article here has a really good explaination about .Net page cycle, how the different functions are called and their sequences, like preinet, init, pageload and so on.
Also has some explanation about viewstates.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/aspnetviewstatepagecycle.aspx